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case as they walked to school one day last week.
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THE BRUSSELS POST, JUNE 27, 1979 — 5
Stroke club can
help local victims
[FROM THE Wingham.
ADVANCE TIMES[
Stroke victims around the
Wingham area will benefit
from a new club being
formed here this summer.
The stroke club will
encourage socializing, but it
will be much more than a
social club. With the
assistance of volunteer
helpers stroke victims will be
encouraged to exercise and
they will receive advice on
ways of overcoming their
handicaps.
Bill Woodley, the nursing
director at Wingham and
District Hospital, is co-
ordinating the establishment
of the club and two students
hired for the summer with
the help of a federal grant
are doing the groundwork.
Hopefully the club will be
ready to go with its first
members by the middle of
this month.
Mr. Woodley said the
main objective in the form-
ation of a stroke club is to
help persons who have
suffered strokes regain their
stamina through social and
physical activities. Club
members and their volunteer
helpers would get together
for five or six hours one day a
week to run through a
program of exercises and
other activities.
He is interested in social
as well as physical
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rehabilitation so in addition
to the exercises the sessions
could feature crafts, films,
card games and other social
activities. There will also be
health and diet instruction
and suggestions how to
arrange furniture and adjust
eating utensils to make life
easier for someone re-
cuperating from a storke.
The volunteer workers will
play a big role in determining
whether or not the program
will be a success and Mr.
Woodley is hoping enough
people will come forward so
they can be paired up with
club members on a one-to-
one basis. Ideally the same
volunteer would continue
working with a club member
, so they can get to know each
other, he said.
He noted volunteers will
probably have to be either
retired people or housewives
since the club will meet
during the daytime. Some
training would be nice but it
isn't essential, he added, and
some people who have them-
selves had strokes but aren't
badly disabled could become
volunteers, encouraging
others with their own
experiences. Volunteers
should be physically fit and
healthy.
-Mr. Woodley said the
reason for deciding to form a
stroke club is that other
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held under cold running wat-
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Then leave it alone. Do not
cover it.
gorups already have access
to services locally but there is,
nothing nearby for stroke
victims. A stroke club has
been operating weekly at.
Huronview in Clinton but
getting there is difficult for
many people from this area.
He also noted that
currently there is no speech
therapy available in this area
and said the club hopes to
devote special attention to
developing alternate com-
munication skills, such as a
symbol board, for stroke
victims with speech
difficulties.
The two students, Susan
Gurney of Palmerston and
Dan Blum of Waterloo,
started work last week. Their
job is to get the program
running and make sure it can
continue with volunteers
after they leave at the end of
the summer. Miss Gurney
has a degree in social work
Waterloo.
They will have an office in
the Nursing Assistants
Training Centre for the
summer and anyone
interested Lti being a club
member or volunteer is
invited to contact them there
through 'the hospital switch
board, 357-3210. There is no
membership fee to join the
club, although there will be a
nominal charge for the cost
of the noon meal provided
through the hospital
cafeteria. .
The club will meet in the
nursing school during the
summer and will have to look
for alternate accommodation
in the fall.
The two local conservation
authorities have agreed to
become involved with mun-
icipalities and their eng-
ineers at an earlier stage in
discussing local erosion
problems in drain reports
coming before township
councils.
Representatives from the
conservation authorities
made this commitment at a
recent municipal drain man-
agement seminar held in
Exeter and hosted by the
authorities.
The purpose of the sem-
inar was to discuss municipal
drain design, construction
and maintenance and to
consider more effective eros-
ion controls.
About 120 people attend
the day long -seminar includ-
ing Norman Alexander of
Londesboro, a longtime ad-
vocate of erosion controls;
Carl Schenk from the Min-
istry of Environment office in
London and Sam Bradshaw,
assistant engineer with the
Clinton OMAF office.
The seminar was a ex-
change between the various
agencies with the respon-
sibility for_ municipal drains
in the Ausable-Bayfield and
Maitland Valley watersheds.
In addition to reviewing
the research now being car-
ried out on municipal drain-
age, the seminar audience
was shown some innovative
methods of transporting
water efficiently to reduce
soil erosion.
A discussion followed on
the need for more consider-
ation of the agricultural
benefits and environmental
costs in the planning stage of
the proposed construction, or
repair and improvement of
municipal drainage works.
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second year of a kinesiology Conservation group municipalities and Mr. Blum in the
course at the University of
w ill work together on drains